Lakshita - An Educational Hub in Space

Navdeep Sharma (1,2), Karam Inder Singh(2), Dr. Aman Mahajan1 (1) (1) Department of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar - 143005, India.
(2) Department of physics, Police D.A.V. Public School, Jalandhar - 144001, India.

Abstract

Lakshita is an Indian word signifying achievement of goal and that is the name of the newest and most modern human settlement in outer space, meant for imparting education to new generation of space by providing the first hand experience of learning and training. Our new space generation will be required to perform many jobs in space which they don't need to perform while living on earth. So it becomes imperative for them to learn about fields like life support system maintenance and their up gradations, operations in and around settlement (including space walk), material sciences which will facilitate mining, extracting, and processing, space power sector, medical sciences (including Physiological and physiological problems) etc while living in space only. Our design of educational settlement will have various sections to enable residents learn different skills in different areas. In the proposed settlement, the torus has eight segments providing education and training in different fields. The unpressurized zones provided in microgravity region will be used as a training region which includes training for disaster management. Sliding capsules are provided to vary the value of g thereby helping in studying physiological and psychological problems and their remedies. The residents will study all the important factors that influence the growth of plants in space like minerals, the climatic conditions (temperature, light, atmospheric composition). Trainees have an opportunity familiarize themselves in complete range of solar array services including photovoltaic engineering, radiation effects analysis.

Presented at ISDC 2011 - Huntsville. Paper and presentation charts are not available.